I think this song's effect needs no explanation.


Shoo-be-doo...
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

In the ongoing quest to get some content for the less-populated sections of the FenWiki, I just put http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2087.html]this image on http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=107_Piscis]the 107 Piscis page.

The page is pretty much a blank slate - it only has the SolStation writeup of the star, which is a placeholder for real content - so there's plenty of room for creativity. Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to tell me about 107 Piscis.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Here's a thread for in-universe commercials, for businesses that likely exist but aren't important enough to turn into even background elements.

The first business is one that I'm stealing from Dragonflight (who is still working on Dead Bang, yes). The spokesperson is my own choice:

Quote:Hello, I'm Fatima Nuygen, host of FTL Newsfeed. I know the importance of saving money when I travel, so whenever I visit the Village of Hidden Asteroid, I stay at Hellsing's coffin-hotel.

Considering how soon after the divergence point (between OTL and Fenspace) the Occupy -wherever- movement started, I assume it also happened in Fenspace... but this is all I can come up with.

"We're less than 1% of the population of Earth! How can anyone up here claim to be part of the 99%?"

"That's a different 99% and you know it, Chris. Why are you so upset, anyway?"

"Because they're blocking access to parts of my station. Why are you not upset, Noah?"

"The 'Occupy Stellvia' crowd are buying my food and giving me valuable ... biosolids. I'm turning a profit on the deal. Besides, they know I can vent any part of the station to space as a crowd-control measure - not that I actually would, mind you - so they're well-behaved."

"Well, I don't have that threat on Greenwood."

Anyone have any more, or want to turn this into a short story?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Right, so... for the last 15 minutes or so, there's been two quotes going through my head from Babylon 5.  Both from Ivanova:
"I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something
stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future
reference."
and -
"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."
You'll recall that in a moment of irrationality, I removed almost all the "glass" surfaces in the base? Well Sofa called me on it over in this thread. And he was right, because that wasn't rational. So I figured, despite all the weirdness with having the Radiation Hazard symbols all over everything, that I'd put the stuff all back. (oh and open up the base editing privileges while I was at it.)
I figured that the devs pay no attention whatsoever to bases, so the bug would never get fixed. I had worked myself up to a pretty righteous (or self-righteous - take your pick) anger over it. I may have even said words to the effect that I'd put real money on that this bug would last until the end of the game.
Well I was wrong.
The glass got fixed... sort of...
Now none of the base options that include symbols have ANY symbols on them. At least that I can see. It's still broken in the sense that you can't create anything with a symbol on it.

But in a way, that's almost a better option that originally having the symbols at all! Now you can create glass walls with no symbols! I don't know if this is going to last forever or not. But it does prove I was wrong about the devs in the sense that they weren't even trying to fix bases.
I'm actually... pretty pleased about this.
(By the way, do any of you recommend a particular cooking method for Crow? Baked? Fried? Sauteed?)

The Fabric of the Cosmos.
Starts on Nov. 2

In the last two days, 10/20-10/21, something hit the boards for over 700,000 page views and drained away all the Gold Ad-Free page view credits we had bought and banked at the end of August.
I have submitted a complaint and demand to get the credits back to Yuku support.  I will keep folks up to date on what they say.
(Edit: fixed spelling errors caused by being tired and sick last night)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

fresh from the interwebs, the animations of our new powerset.

GIMMME!!!!!

http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=178 Quantum Vibe is the kind of science fiction story I associate with the giants, like Clarke and Asimov, or the dude who's name I forget that did the Trigger and Telzey Amberdon stories. (more on the latter end than the best of Clarke and Asimov, but the day my writing gets compared to the low end of theirs, I'ma do a little dance.) Also, the art is super. The linked page is a pretty good capsule summary without being spoilery.

http://krakowstudios.com/...tte/2010/02/09/20100209/ Spinnerette is a genre-savvy superheroes piece, simultaneously explicitly poking fun at and making use of the Spiderman & Spiderman 2099 origin stories to give a self described "shy nerd-girl" six arms and spider powers (which do not include a spider-sense no matter what she thinks) and then handles the resulting hijinx in a semi-realistic way. (Though I do question the realism of certain of the Naga the White Serpent expy's attributes...) Art is pro-comics level, Marvel Manga style.

- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

My church choir is performing this song for an upcoming service. I honestly prefer the SATB + Piano arrangement by Larry Nickel, but I've linked to the best I could find on YouTube.I Dreamed of Rain by Jan Garrett

Quote:I dreamed of rain, and the rains came,
Soft and easy, sweet and clear;
I dreamed of rain, and the rains came,
And peace spread over the land.

I dreamed of summer and the winds changed,
And the green was easy and the rivers ran clear;
I dreamed of summer and the winds changed,
And peace spread over the land.

And the flowers bloomed in the desert,
And the air is fresh and clear;
I dreamed of rain, and the rains came,
And peace spread over the land.

I dreamed of freedom and the moon rose,
And the way was easy and the path was clear;
I dreamed of freedom and the moon rose,
And peace spread over the land.

And the guardian stars are shining,
And the night is bright and clear;
I dreamed of freedom and the moon rose,
And peace spread over the land.

I dreamed of heaven and the earth sang,
And the sound was easy, the song was clear;
I dreamed of heaven and the earth sang,
And peace spread over the land.

And the ancient pain is forgotten,
And the fathers' debts are clear;
I dreamed of heaven and the earth sang;

Peace spread over the land.

I dreamed of rain, and the rains came;
I dreamed of rain, and the rains came.